CLASS OF 1867

Dr. Daniel Wright Dimock died in January of the present year at Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was born in South Coventry, Conn., March 27, 1835, being a son of Dr. Timothy and Mary Ann (Moody) Dimock. He was for one term a member of the Yale class of '61, and then studied medicine with his father from the winter of 1859 until September, 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, 25th Connecticut Volunteers. In January, 1863, he was detailed as acting hospital steward, and so served until June, at Ginwood Hospital. In September, 1863, he was mustered out, and in the following March re-enlisted in the 29th Regiment as hospital steward; he was at first in charge of a hospital at New Haven, Conn., and then was with his regiment in South Carolina, Virginia, and Texas, until September, 1865, when the regiment returned North and was mustered out. He participated in sixteen battles, and was once taken prisoner, but soon escaped.

After obtaining his medical degree, he practiced successively in Suffield, Conn., Windham, N. H., Monson, Mass., and Brockton, Mass., being at the last for thirty years, until his retirement and removal to Sydney in June, 1912. He leaves a widow and one son.